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Old 10-28-2008, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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Pay more on your IO ARM. Who knows what it'll recast to, and since it's adjustable your minimum payment will actually drop. Extra payments towards a fixed rate mortgage don't change your monthly payment - only the paid-off date for the loan.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:32 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA
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Pay more on your IO ARM. Who knows what it'll recast to, and since it's adjustable your minimum payment will actually drop. Extra payments towards a fixed rate mortgage don't change your monthly payment - only the paid-off date for the loan.
My thoughts exactly, thank for confirming this. A home just sold for 240K a little smaller than ours today. The last sales history was in 12/04 for $443K:

SDLookup.com > 4033*Palm*Ave - MLS# 080061873

My zip code is pretty busy:

http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS_Updates-66-Nestor

If anyone wants to analyze the data, feel free. Our house is a 3 bedroom 2bath 2 car garage new kitchen 1080 square feet pool/spa
built 1969

We paid 399K in 2004, but we put down 100K from our sale of our 1st house, which sold to a sinlelady and is now bank owned.
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